Hewlett Packard made a significant announcement that they are publishing the list of their major suppliers, the first time a global electronics company has done so. At the same time, HP announced a new training…
An international group of environmental, legal and health NGO’s welcomed today’s judgment by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against the European Commission’s decision to exempt decaBDE, a brominated flame retardant, from a list of…
The Sony Vaio TZ11 laptop, Sony Ericsson T650i mobile phone and Sony Ericsson P1i PDA have come out on top in Greenpeace’s first survey of greener electronics products.The main brands of desktop PCs and notebooks,…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in partnership with retailers, manufacturers and service providers recently introduced the “Recycle Your Cell Phone: It’s an Easy Call” campaign. Eleven companies, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Staples, Best Buy and…
Despite new European regulations to prevent electronic waste from being dumped in Africa and Asia, a hidden flow of end-of-life electronics is threatening to drown West Africa.”Ghana is increasingly becoming a dumping ground for waste…
The fate of large quantities of electronic waste is unknown, according to a Greenpeace report Toxic tech: Not In Our Backyard. Even in regions such as the EU that are subject to tighter regulation, there…
In Poland in recent years electronic industry has been developing at a very fast rate. This in itself positive for Polish economy development directed attention of NGOs to the working conditions in the electronic factories….
When the nation’s television spectrum switches from the analog we’re currently using to the digital spectrum of the future, all of our existing analog televisions will go dark. What will happen to the old TVs…
makeITfair – a project implemented by number of organizations from EU and developing countries developed a report titled Gender perspective. Production of Next-Generation Electronics in Poland. The research was conducted from May to July 2007…
Computers are considered to be the allegory of the 21st century: Fancy, flexible, key to the immaterial world of global cyberspace. But a glance behind the stage reveals a very different picture. Single parts of…